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Feb 2017 journal

Community Engagement and Enforcement

February 28, 2017
Featured in this issue: Today’s Law Enforcement Challenges, By Kay C. Goss; Managing Civil Unrest & Protests in a New Environment, By Melissa Hyatt; Three “I”s to Repairing the Police/Community Relationship, By Marc R. Partee; Podcast: Joseph Trindal on Law Enforcement Retention, by Joseph Tindal; Community Oriented Policing Under Fire,

Destination: Resilience

January 31, 2017
Featured in this issue: Sustainable Emergency Preparedness & Response for Hospitals, By Rachel Clark & Oscar Enriquez; Local Role in Preparedness & Resilience to Natural Disasters, By Roland Temah; Time Value of Capability: Expenditures vs. Savings, By Charles Eaneff; The Changing Face of Disasters Demands New Thinking, By Vincent B.
December 2016 Journal

Yet To Come

December 31, 2016
Featured in this issue: Authoritarianism & the American Response: 2017 Forecast, By Christopher Milburn; Bombing an Ideology: No One-Size-Fits-All Approach, By Richard Schoeberl; Unmanned Aircraft Systems for Emergency Management, By Darren E. Price; Making the Grid Great Again, By J. Michael Barrett; The Year of the Railway Station, By Steven
November 2016

Leadership

November 30, 2016
Featured in this issue: Making Tough Calls: Meta-Leadership for Critical Decisions, By Kerri Kline; Meta-Leadership 2.0: More Critical Than Ever, By Leonard J. Marcus; Importance of Presidential Leadership in Emergency Management, By Kay C. Goss; The Human Factors in Leadership Decision Making, By Eric J. McNulty; High-Consequence Decisions: What It

Active Shooter

October 26, 2016
Featured in this issue: Asking the Experts About Active Shooter Threats, By Catherine L. Feinman; Think Tank Discussion: Active Shooter Situations, by International Association of Emergency Managers; One Mission for Active Shooter Response: Saving Lives, By Richard C. Hunt; Beyond Running, Hiding, and Fighting, By Aric Mutchnick; Active Shooter School

CBRNE Threats

September 28, 2016
Featured in this issue: Addressing Threats From Concept to Field, By Catherine L. Feinman; The Danger of Not Keeping Up With Technological Advances, By Melissa Moses; Technology for Improved Public Health Preparedness & Response, By Greg Burel; Hazard Detection: Bring Your Own Protection, By Kathryn Laskey; A Conversation That Should

CBRNE Training

August 31, 2016
Featured in this issue: The Things That Keep Experts Up at Night, By Catherine Feinman; How to Address the Human Side of Critical Incidents, By George S. Everly Jr.; Plugging the Experience Drain in Hazmat Response, By Christopher Wrenn; Innovative Approaches to Radiological/Nuclear Preparedness, By Erin Mohres & Darren Chen;

Challenges

July 27, 2016
Featured in this issue: Public Health – Opportunities for Action, By Catherine L. Feinman; Bringing Public Health Preparedness Into the 21st Century, By Emily Lord; Threats Evolving Faster Than Preparedness, By Robert C. Hutchinson; Social Impact Bonds & Sustainable Disaster Risk Reduction, By Justin Snair & Megan Reeve Snair; Public

Risk

June 30, 2016
Featured in this issue: Balancing Risk Understanding & Preparing for Catastrophes, By Catherine L. Feinman; Space Weather A Historic Shift in Emergency Preparedness, By Charles (Chuck) Manto; Preparing for Everything Under the Sun, By Joshua Sparber; Space Weather & Electrical Grid GPS, the Weakest Link, By Dana

Border Security

May 25, 2016
Featured in this issue: Border Control Challenges A Roundtable Discussion, By Robert C. Hutchinson & Catherine L. Feinman; Porous Borders & Cultivated Threats, By Richard Schoeberl; Border Control: Always On Guard, By Armin Cate; National Threats: Advice for the Next President, By Mark-Jon Nichols; Inexperience – Filling the Void,

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Article Out Loud – Mental Awareness to Enhance Preparedness

April 17, 2024
  Full article by Andrew (Andy) Altizer, an Article Out Loud from Domestic Preparedness, April 17, 2024. In this featured article, an emergency manager with military experience points out that emergency managers, public health officials, and first responders often stress the importance of physical fitness, but sometimes neglect mental fitness.

Article Out Loud – Primary Care Investments to Increase Community Resilience

April 17, 2024
  Full article by Angie Im, an Article Out Loud from Domestic Preparedness, April 17, 2024. In this featured article, a healthcare research and policy expert describes the importance of community health centers and their impact on community resilience. These medical lifelines for millions of Americans are facing financial and

Article Out Loud – The Missing Plague Vials

April 17, 2024
  Full article by Robert C. Hutchinson, an Article Out Loud from Domestic Preparedness, April 17, 2024. In this featured article, an experienced federal agent shares a true story of missing bubonic plague vials, an airport bomb threat, and other suspicious activities that demonstrate continued national and homeland security vulnerabilities

Article Out Loud – The “R” Word

April 10, 2024
  Full article by George Schwartz, an Article Out Loud from Domestic Preparedness, April 10, 2024. In this featured article, an associate professor at Immaculata University addresses the challenge of defining resilience and the need to go beyond hazard mitigation. With 2024 being the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s “Year of Resilience,”

Article Out Loud – Dungeons and Disasters: Gamification of Public Health Responses

April 10, 2024
  Full article by Michael Etzel and Michael Prasad, an Article Out Loud from Domestic Preparedness, April 10, 2024. In this featured article, two emergency managers describe how advanced technologies are offering new ways to train personnel, exercise public health responses like COVID-19, and prepare response agencies for many other

Article Out Loud – Interoperability During Mass Casualty Incidents

April 3, 2024
  Full article by Charles Guddemi and Catherine Feinman, an Article Out Loud from Domestic Preparedness, April 3, 2024. In this featured article, the District of Columbia’s Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency’s statewide interoperability coordinator and the editor of Domestic Preparedness highlight the key takeaways from a 2024 interoperability

Article Out Loud – Emergency Management Goes to the Hill

March 27, 2024
  Full article by Kay C. Goss and Catherine L. Feinman, an Article Out Loud from Domestic Preparedness, March 27, 2024. In this featured article, two attendees of a Senate briefing on “The State of Emergency Management” discuss the assistance needs of emergency managers working behind the scenes to ensure

Article Out Loud – The Evolution of Homeland Security Higher Education

March 27, 2024
  Full article by Heather Issvoran, an Article Out Loud from Domestic Preparedness, March 27, 2024. In this featured article, the director of strategic communications for the Center for Homeland Defense and Security describes how homeland security education expanded after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, to ensure that
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Domestic Preparedness

2883 Highway 71E

P.O. Box 285

Del Valle, TX 78617-9998

Editorial Statement

Founded in 1998, Domestic Preparedness continues to be a pioneering thought leader in the emergency preparedness, response, and recovery space. The multidisciplinary editorial focus helps professionals acquire critical information to develop collaborative, real-world solutions. With relevant, multidisciplinary, whole-community intelligence from the front lines, practitioners can learn from diverse perspectives. The authoritative, practitioner-centered, multimedia information platform disseminates intelligence the way busy management-level public- and private-sector professionals want to learn. This is the trusted source for content written by practitioners, for practitioners, with relevant, real-world best practices.

DomesticPreparedness.com, the Domestic Preparedness Journal and the Weekly Brief include facts, views, opinions, and recommendations of individuals and organizations deemed of interest. The Texas Division of Emergency Management and the Texas A&M University System do not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, or timeliness of, or otherwise endorse, these views, facts, opinions or recommendations.
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